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Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC

Thought Leader Ebrahim Harvey -

It is from the beneficiaries of the ANC’s ‘cadre deployment’ that you will mostly hear the fawning praises sung

Why doctors dread the days the country celebrates

Thought Leader Aneeka Domingo -

‘Big’ days in sport — or even just weekends — almost always spell an increase in trauma and gender violence. One doctor remembers a day she had to put her compassion aside

O, Canada! Art bears witness to ‘dark secrets’ of colonised places

Thought Leader Leizl Eykelhof -

An installation and a documentary about the notorious residential school system amplify calls to define such deaths worldwide as genocide

Psychologists talk: Is the United Nations capable of resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict (or indeed any modern crisis)?

Thought Leader Suntosh Pillay & Anton Botha -

Suntosh Pillay speaks to fellow psychologist Anton Botha, who is also a former UN staff member, about Israel and Palestine and whether or not the United Nations is abdicating its duties to maintain peace

SCREEN GRAB: Funny, not funny

Thought Leader Carlos Amato -

HBO's Fake Famous is a humorous dive into the Instagram racket, but it misses the painful collateral damage of the influencer economy

Online learning, a mandatory alternative

Thought Leader Chris Meintjies -

We should be obsessed with how we can help our young South Africans access and utilise systems of secondary and tertiary entry education

Today’s ANC is a criminal enterprise masquerading as moral and political “leaders of society”

Thought Leader Tebogo Khaas -

The criminal prosecution and lawful dissolution of the ANC are not only morally desirable but legally justifiable too

The fraud of happiness

Thought Leader Rafael Winkler -

Institutes and research centres that insist on happiness as a goal lure one into accepting the status quo on the basis of the fraudulent notion that happiness is possible. It is not

Calling it a ‘conflict’ helps to sustain Israel’s occupation of Palestine

Thought Leader Suraya Dadoo -

Because Israel is an occupying nation, Israeli violence and Palestinian resistance should not be portrayed as equivalent

Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens

Thought Leader Wilmien Wicomb -

Proposed changes to the Traditional Courts Bill to remove the possibility to “opt out” and use magistrate’s courts instead are probably unconstitutional, and definitely play into the hands of traditional leaders instead of their communities

The things we lost in the fire

Thought Leader Paballo Chauke -

The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want

Democracy and open society in Zimbabwe 41 years after independence

Thought Leader Dewa Mavhinga -

A full 41 years after ‘freedom’, many Zimbabweans still strive for what they sought then – the enjoyment of their fundamental human rights and freedoms

The sports world is failing to protect the human rights of women athletes

Thought Leader Nokukhanya Farisè & Tanveer Jeewa -

Caster Semenya’s case and that of other black women athletes spells bad news for the human rights of women in sport, including their right to dignity and equality

Police brutality: Citizens are just as much to blame

Thought Leader Prince Charles -

Even though it is the officers who carry out the physical force, it is our prejudice that lays fertile ground for the abuse of power to entrench itself

Zuma’s mollycoddling is justified criminologically, but not the damage he did to the country

Thought Leader Casper Lӧtter -

The attempts of the ANC’s top six to convince the former president to attend the Zondo hearings is a good example of an integrative shaming measure

Could innovation in payments and e-commerce expand intra-African trade?

Thought Leader Osahon Akpata -

The African Continental Free Trade Area going live heralds exciting times for tech innovation in payments, e-commerce and trade across Africa

Conspiracy theories: Do your research and question ‘facts’

Thought Leader Philip Machanick -

People’s powerful belief in their views, in defiance of specialists in a subject, are amplified by social media and are then viewed as fact — when in fact it’s false

US needs a gutsy Biden now

Thought Leader Azhar Azam -

With political polarisations running deep after a divisive Trump presidency, the new administration will need to rid the country of crises on several fronts

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